Comments on: GRUBER: EXPERT REPORT ON FORWARD-LOOKING REMEDIES TO COMBAT YOUTH SMOKING http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2005/03/21/gruber-expert-report-on-forward-looking-remedies-to-combat-youth-smoking/ Blogging U.S. vs. Philip Morris, Inc. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: tobacco observer http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2005/03/21/gruber-expert-report-on-forward-looking-remedies-to-combat-youth-smoking/#comment-351 tobacco observer Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:42:12 +0000 http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2005/03/21/gruber-expert-report-on-forward-looking-remedies-to-combat-youth-smoking/#comment-351 "Therefore, this remedy can play a vital role in ensuring that the tobacco manufacturers take affirmative actions to reduce actions which attract youth to their products." **** Since marketing cigarettes to youth (especially "youth" over 18 who are legally entitled to smoke) isn't actually a violation of RICO, or any other law, this remedy is impermissible and irrelevant. Nice try, though. “Therefore, this remedy can play a vital role in ensuring that the tobacco manufacturers take affirmative actions to reduce actions which attract youth to their products.”
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Since marketing cigarettes to youth (especially “youth” over 18 who are legally entitled to smoke) isn’t actually a violation of RICO, or any other law, this remedy is impermissible and irrelevant.

Nice try, though.

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